Improvement in bending wood



Nrrnn STATES ATENT FFICE.,

WILLIAM G. WRIGHT, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BENDING WOOD.

specil-ication forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,483, dated February 6, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM QWRIGHT, of Trenton, in the county ot' Mercer and State ot' New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bending Carriage-Bows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification.

The present invention has for its object the facilitating of the operation of bending carriage-bows to and about their forming frame or block, land to obviate all possibilityr of their being broken or cracked by such operation.

In accompanying plate of drawings my improvement is illustrated, Figure l being an end view of the forming frame or block, showing two wooden strips bent about and around the same, protected with suitable metallic plates or sheets; Fig. 2, a central vertical section taken in the direction of its length and in the plane ofthe line x a', Fig. l.

a a in the drawings represent the forming frame or block, made in any of the ordinary modes practiced therefor, about which the wooden strips of which the carriage-bows are to be formed are bent. These strips are bent around the block aI in the usual manner; but by my invent-ion have previously applied to and upon their outside surfaces a thin plate or sheet of iexible metal, b, of suflicient width and .length to entirelyY cover the same,which plates are secured thereto at each end by clamps e c, the strip being held tightly to and upon the frames by means ot' bolts and nuts d (Z and ff passing across the frame, as 0rdinarily.

By covering the wooden strips with plates or sheets of metal held at each end thereon, as explained, is is obvious that the danger ot' the wood to be broken is greatly removed, and that a much quicker and better' bending thereof is obtained.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The arrangement of the iieXible 'plate b, clamps c c, bolts d d, and rivets ff With the forming-frame a, as and for the purpose eX- plained.

rIhe above specification ot my invention signed by me.

VILLIAM C. WRIGHT.

Witnesses MiDDLE'roN GARsLAKE, JOHN ELLWoooGARsLAKE. 

